Shenmue Star Returns For Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Cameo

Sega pulled Ryo Hazuki out of retirement and added him to the roster in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.

While it’s strange to see Ryo, Sonic, and fellow Dreamcast alum Samba the monkey in the same game, it almost makes sense. Shenmue had a motorcycle racing mini-game. Bonus points to Sega and Sumo Digital for adding in the forklift.

Aaagh what a tease! Damn you SEGA, just give us Shenmue 3 before the world ends!

Still cool I guess

Aoshi00

Ryo-san! And every new Yakuza installment or spinoff is also a tease too. Damn I want Shenmue 3. The forklift joke is funny, I remember people saying Ryo’s part time gigs like working in the dock were boring as heck.

http://twitter.com/ravenschwann Tim Nguyen

Didn’t mean to “like” ment to reply, but man, I loved the part time jobs!

Aoshi00

I do too, it was very innovative that every mundane little thing was turned into a mini game, gambling, arm wrestling, etc. Shenmue was true pioneer and many games followed suit. What I would give to have a 3rd installment.

http://www.younganimal.com/berserk Mr_Qoo

Heck yeah! This game is a buy for me. It reminds me of Konami’s Krazy Racers for the GBA. I still break that out and play it every now and again when people beat me in Mario Kart Double-Dash. =) It’s a different story when it’s Super Mario Kart though…

Put some Jaguar(Space Channel 5) in there, please! I want to hear his theme shout again.

http://www.youtube.com/user/xxHiryuuxx Hiryuu

Forklift ftw!

Bafish

I LOVE Shenmue! This is odd, but I’ll take anything with Ryo in it. And like Cowwow said……give us Shenmue. It is not fair to tease us with Shenmue 2 ending!!!!

jarrodand

Awesome. I still hope the Hornet makes it in.

pressstart

That would be pretty funny, the car as a car XD

Chow

I guess this shows that Sega has a certain awareness of Shenmue fans, and possibly what they want.

I had my fingers crossed for Mecha Sonic being in this, but Ryo is good enough. It shows that SEGA realizes Dreamcast fans haven’t forgotten about Shenmue. I don’t expect a new game in that series to come any time soon, but at least their using something from that property. I do plan on running Robotnik’s monster truck thingy off the road using his forklift.

I’ll be surprised if Dural and B.M. don’t at least make a cameo appearance in one of the track backgrounds or something. Show the Virtua Fighters/Fighting Vipers fans(myself and others) a little love!

cepp

:’(

lol @ the forklift switchover though.

Hexen

do he get a forklift toy car on every race? :)

thebanditking

Its been too long, welcome back from the void Ryo! Now just go convine Yu Suzuki out of retirement and get the Yakuza team prepped, I need Shenmue 3. I am so buying this now.

daizyujin

This is great. Now just give us Ren and Lan Di. :)

Guest

omg how awesome is that to have Ryo Hazuki. long live Shenmue.

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